HPEC vs Virtualis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HPEC
This app allows physicians to securely store and verify their medical credentials digitally. It enables access to a private, self-moderated social network for verified medical professionals to connect and collaborate.
- Digital medical credential storage
- Verifiable digital credentials
- Self-sovereign identity system
- Encrypted cloud agent
- Private physician social network
- Self-moderation for censorship resistance
- Professional reputation building
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The HPEC wallet is a user centric, privacy preserving application that allows physicians like you to upload your medical credentials and receive verifiable digital credentials from credential issuing bodies. We call the credentials “verifiable” because when they are issued and accepted by you, proof of the transaction is logged on a distributed ledger, in order to record the event permanently. Our application consists of a self-sovereign identity system for each physician user, built in a secure and encrypted cloud agent that you control – your credential wallet. The digital wallet and credential verification portion of our application is built on open-sourced self-sovereign identity standards developed by the World Wide Web Consortium, (WC3,) and the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF.) Any credential issuing body who wants to participate and issue credentials can use and interoperate with our open standards-based system. In the meantime, physicians can also upload stored copies of their paper credentials, and have that data verified through the HPEC network. Once physicians have their credentials and identity verified, they are then allowed access to a private social network of other physician colleagues who have also been verified. Our unique social network includes identity verification and deploys a proprietary protocol of self-moderation making it, censorship resistant. The HPEC network allows you to build you professional reputation and connect with similarly verified colleagues on to collaborate towards common goals. Physician centric control of their verified professional data gives the physician community the ability to verify who they are in a secure and trusted way so they can move freely throughout the healthcare system. To get started you need: - a government issued ID - a copy of a medical license - 5-7 min to complete the onboarding process Let’s go!
Virtualis
This AI-powered communication app helps healthcare teams streamline patient care. It allows nurses and physicians to create consultation requests, automatically grades patient acuity, and recommends specialties. Users can also engage in direct and group chats.
- AI-powered acuity grading
- Consultation request creation
- Specialty recommendations
- Direct and group chat
- Patient condition assessment
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Virtualis is a AI-powered clinical acuity graded communication application conceived by healthcare practitioners for healthcare and hospital teams. The mobile application enables healthcare nurses and physicians a communication and chat solution that allows users to: - Create consultation requests to physicians and nurse practitioners based on patient disposition. - Virtualis uses a proprietary LLM to automatically grade inputted patient condition based on low, moderate or high acuity levels - Acuity levels are graded red, yellow or greeen and users can be recommended a specialty based on acuity scope - Users can also direct chat and group chat with other users of the platform.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Virtualis at every 8 days against HPEC's every 3 weeks. HPEC's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 2). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HPEC against 5.0 for Virtualis. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HPEC has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
HPEC ships an update every 3 weeks, Virtualis every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HPEC | Virtualis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HPEC, Inc | LiveMed Health |
Customer experience
HPEC
Virtualis
In-app purchases
HPEC
No in-app purchases
Virtualis
No in-app purchases








